[samcday]

I'm just wrapping up the work to migrate my company away from Gitlab to Github and this happens. I did it because I figured Github has to have better reliability / uptime than Gitlab. Someone joked that as soon as the migration is done Github will have some major downtime.

sigh

[q3k]

I highly recommend running at least a local, self-hosted git mirror at any tech company, just in these cases. Gitolite + cgit are extremely low maintenance, especially if you host them next to your other production services.

Not to mention, if you get the self-hosted route you can use Gerrit, which is still miles better for code review than GitHub, Gitlab, bitbucket and co.

[grey-area]

You don't even need gitolite, if you're going the self-hosted route:

apt install git-all

is enough to host your own git server. Put it behind a firewall to limit access and use standard linux users with ssh keys for access control if you don't need anything fancy. For small companies I'm not sure you need anything else. Of course if you need different levels of access etc then you'll need more sophisticated tools, but many people won't.

Code review I do using local tools (the editor) face to face, again not sure you need an online service for that unless you're a larger company with lots of developers coordinating (in which case it becomes pretty essential).

[myvoiceismypass]

Could you explain why Gerrit is better than the rest for code reviews? I have not used Gerrit in years (before I ever used github PRs) and I guess I don’t miss it, but also don’t know what I am missing :)

[gfdgfdg]

you can also self-host the GitLab community edition :D

[tauchunfall]

>I did it because I figured Github has to have better reliability

Have you looked at the GitHub incident history? https://www.githubstatus.com/history

[shhsshs]

HN is not typically receptive to snide corrections/remarks. There are several more productive ways to address a minor capitalization error - the best of which is to not correct it at all because it's so trivial and unimportant.

[celticninja]

If we are being pedantic they were both spelled correctly.

[swebs]

>I did it because I figured Github has to have better reliability / uptime than Gitlab

Why the hell would you think that after the Microsoft acquisition?